American Standard

American Standard
Opening Saturday 10/21, 6-8pm

10/21-11/26, Sat-Sun 1- 5pm

Luke Kempton Williams (b.1983), a multi disciplinary artist and publisher based in New York joins us at Lump for his first solo show: American Standard. Through painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and video, Luke’s work confronts the hallucinations thrown up by the political and economic landscape of a sick and dying superpower as it descends into darkness. The pieces address economic disparities, violence, paranoia, decay of infrastructure, homophobia and general malaise created by corporate welfare and increasing tensions between working class citizens in a country previously thought of at times as a global beacon of hope. Williams employs experimentation of common objects, turning them potent and poignant, reaching out to the viewer provoking introspection, as well as putting them in the position of an inactive observer of our nation’s maladies.  Luke is also the founder of Cave Homo, a queer creative magazine.

Luke can be found on IG here.